Games that make you feel good / badass?

[Bravo 21]

Mass Effect (any of them) on Casual. Massacre All The Things! good way to blow of steam. Actually most games on easy. And DEFCON, because there are NUKES EVERYWHERE. even losing is fun if your fire all the nukes simultaneously.

 

[theEntireRobotMafia]

Jet Grind Radio makes you feel like a badass. Can't think of another game where you take out helicopters and assassins with spray paint.

 

[Sean Steele]

Bastion, six hours or so long but you might get a little tear in your eye.

 

[KingofMadCows]

Playing as an evil character in Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer. The ending was great, one of the best evil endings ever.

Spoiler

 

[CD-R]

I'd say Warhammer 40k Space Marine. You really can't be any more bad ass than an 8 foot tall cybernetically enhanced, genetically modified, power armored warrior monk taking on an entire army of space orks and heretics with a giant chain saw sword and a fully automatic rpg launcher. And you don't regenerate health by hiding behind wall sucking your thumb, oh no. If you want your health regenerated you got get out there stun some poor sod and execute him in the most violent way possible. There should be a demo for it available on whatever platform you use.

 

[lacktheknack]

I just finished the entire Myst series.

Games Two through Five all have feel-good endings (maybe less-so with four, but I digress), but for the love of God don't get the bad ends. Unless you hate sleep. Plus, if you really like solving puzzles, you can feel like a totally DIFFERENT kind of badass.

And the Myst MMO has a couple accidental badass moments in it (I just fell a hundred feet, landed it and think nothing of it!).

Starcraft 2 fit the bill significantly better, but I like talking about Myst.

 

[ChocoFace]

Devil May Cry 3, once i'd learned the game thoroughlly and would completely wreck anything the game threw at me.

 

[Scott Schreiner]

Dead Space 2 has some bad ass moments and a very satisfying ending IMO (although you won't fully get it unless you've played the first one.)

Alan Wake has one of the most bad ass moments in all of gaming in it, although the ending is good, it leaves some things open ended. If you're on Xbox, the American Nightmare Xbox Live Arcade Episode wraps up a lot of that too. I honestly just can't recommend Alan Wake enough. It would have been my 2010 game of the year had it not been for Mass Effect 2.

Also the final two levels of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare always made me feel like a bad ass. And even though everything goes to hell at the end, it is very very very satisfying because of what they let you do.

 

[triggrhappy94]

I was playing Bad Company 1 online way back when...
It was a game of rush, I was defending, and we had just lost a base and getting pushed back. There was a bit of a road to the next base, and on the walk there, I decided to hide in a bush next to the road with my rocket launcher. Sure enough, an enemy humvee came by shortly after. I jumped out and shot at it. The rocket hit it dead on, it shot up into the air and did a flip, landing on it roof in flames.

I felt a weird mixture of Batman from that one scene in The Dark Knight and a terrorist.

 

[Guffe]

DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for the wii makes me feel badass
Also:
Prince of Persia
Star Wars the Force Unleashed

aaaaaand now I got a thinkers block, sory.

 

[AbstractStream]

Finishing the suicide mission with everyone alive at the end of ME2. Did I feel like a bad ass? Hell yeah.

Harvesting crops in Harvest Moon makes me feel good...what? >>

 

[King of Asgaard]

Recently, I guess it would be while playing Dark Souls. Wait wait, hear me out. Yes, the game's bosses makes me its ***** as a regular occurrence, but I always feel like I've accomplished something when I take it down, or when I'm cruising through lower leveled guys with a battleaxe killing them all in one shot when it used to be difficult to kill even one.

OT: Demon's Souls. Okay, I don't know if the ending is good, as I've yet to complete the game, but this game has you feeling like a total badass when you kill a boss/a tough enemy.

Pretty much these.
There's no better feeling than when you crush that boss that's been torturing you for so long.

 

[josemlopes]

Max fucking Payne

Serious Sam
Hitman
Rainbow Six Vegas 2, terrorist hunt on easy
Splinter Cell Conviction on easy
Painkiller
Bulletstorm
Gears of War

 

[go-10]

Arkham City because you're THE Batman
you're always six steps ahead of the enemies and not to mention once you master combat you turn into a god like fighter, no wonder Superman is scared of the bat

 

[Groxnax]

Hmmm, I would say Batman: AA and Madworld.

 

[Fuhrlock]

Renegade options in ME2/3 in any matter concerning the quarian admiralty board are some of my badass favourites, other renegade options are good but I personally don't find them anywhere near as rewarding.

My badass go to for gameplay is arkum asylum because let's be honest it's hard to beat the feeling you're batman.

 

[Sexy Devil]

Infamous 2 gave me deep satisfaction pushing multiple guys off of a roof top with one push, and electrocuting anyone in the water never got old, especially pushing them into the water too.

If you time it right, when an enemy ice launches you can ice launch into them and slam them with your amp. It is so unbelievably awesome.

So yeah, InFamous 2 for me too.

 

[Alcamonic]

Batman: Arkham City was amazing on that regard. Bringing down large amounts of unarmed tugs while completely avoiding all damage is one of the best game feelings ever.

Sure it is rather easy, but oh the fun!

And then you reach The Riddle's stupid acrobatic trails...


Edit: Oh oh! I completely forgot the FEAR series! Especially the first one, such nice comments from the enemies.
Soldier one "Go get him!" Solder two "No fucking way!".

 

[Jdb]

Street Fighter: Third Strike. Pulling off a combo always tickles my pants. Also, this whole match, especially the round starting at 1:27. One of the greatest comebacks ever.


Contra is also a good choice.

 

[putowtin]

Infamous 2 gave me deep satisfaction pushing multiple guys off of a roof top with one push, and electrocuting anyone in the water never got old, especially pushing them into the water too.

agreed! It's one of two games I know I can always go back to when I've played a less than satisfactory game, the other being Assassin's Creed 2.